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SUMMARY:Designing Tomorrow
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20251022T160000
UID:2026-05-05-12-30-05@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260505T123005
Description:About the Seminar:\n\nThe design of sustainable products\, proc
 esses and systems must be informed by rigorous assessments in order to min
 imize unintended consequences.   By focusing on how to structure assessme
 nts to provide the necessary input\, the resulting designs can achieve si
 gnificant and measurable improvements in sustainability performance.  Thr
 ee case studies will be presented demonstrating the feedback between asse
 ssment and design including novel sorbents for removal of inorganic contam
 inants from aqueous systems\; an improved process for the extraction\, fra
 ctionation\, and transformation of biobased feedstocks\; and establishing
  dominant physiochemical properties contributing to observed toxicity.  E
 ach of these case studies will illustrate an integrative and iterative ap
 proach for sustainable design of engineered systems informed by systematic
  assessments.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nDr. Julie Zimmerman is an internati
 onally recognized engineer whose work is focused on advancing innovations 
 in sustainable technologies.  Dr. Zimmerman serves as the inaugural Vice 
 Provost for Planetary Solutions at Yale University. Julie holds joint appo
 intments as a Liliane and Christian Haub Professor in the School of Engine
 ering and the School of the Environment.  Julie also serves as the Editor
  in Chief of Environmental Science &amp\; Technology\, the most highly cit
 ed journal in environmental sciences and engineering.  Prof. Zimmerman wa
 s elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025. Together with Dr
 . Paul Anastas\, Julie runs a sustainability consultancy\, Sustainability 
 A to Z\, to work on pressing and proprietary issues for companies across s
 ectors and throughout value chains.  Prior to joining Yale\, Dr. Zimmerma
 n was an Engineer and program manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection
  Agency leading the national sustainable design competition\, P3 (People\,
  Prosperity\, and Planet) Award\, which has engaged design teams from hund
 reds of universities across the U.S. Professor Zimmerman is the co-author 
 of the textbook\, Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals\, Sustainability
 \, Design that is used in the engineering programs at leading universities
 . Dr. Zimmerman earned her B.S. from the University of Virginia and her Ph
 .D. from the University of Michigan jointly from the School of Engineering
  and the School of Environment and Sustainability. 4:00 pm
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